UB Nutrition: National Eating Disorder Awareness Week

Contributed by Kathryn Kotlarz - UB Dietetic Intern

For those of you who don’t already know, this week, February 24-March 2, 2013 is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. The theme this year is “Everybody Knows Somebody”, and with the millions of females and males who suffer from an eating disorder at some point in their life, especially adolescents and college aged individuals, this statement almost always holds true. Every type of Eating Disorder: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder and Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified (ED-NOS), can be life threatening and affect both a person’s physical and mental well-being. NEDAwareness Week “strives to increase outreach and awareness of eating disorders and body image issues, while reducing the stigma surrounding eating disorders and improving access to treatment resources” (nedawarness.org).

If you are interested, UB Wellness is holding a few events for NEDawareness week

- Wednesday, February 27^th – Life and Learning: Supporting Someone with an Eating Disorder in Student Union Room 309 from 5-6pm

- Thursday, February 28^th - Wellness Day in the Student Union Lobby from 11am-2pm

For more information on these events:

http://student-affairs.buffalo.edu/shs/eatdisweek.php

Below are a number of resources on Eating Disorders

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week Website

http://nedawareness.org/about

National Eating Disorders Association Website

http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/

“Something Fishy” Website – Eating Disorder Awareness/Information Website

http://www.something-fishy.org/